Two Rare Reverse Glass Painted & Mother of Pearl Ecclesiastical Signs c.1910-20 sub-Natural History The hinged oak collectors case

The hinged oak collectors case with hanging hook and buff coloured interior housing a collection of predominantly butterflies but also a beetle and two dragonfly specimens

from the massive bearded head

the top arch depicting a hand painted rural farm house scene with a peasant at the door of a stone house with trees and fallen log to the foreground against a sky blue sky

The pictures have all had a light restorative clean but no more

So many possibilities…

Two Rare Reverse Glass Painted & Mother of Pearl Ecclesiastical Signs c.1910-20 sub-Natural History The hinged oak collectors caseOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 20Height: 3. 75 4Width: 9. 75The wonderfully decorative reverse glass painted and mother of pearl ecclesiastical signs for 'He is Risen' and 'Redeemed', one with damage, each probably unique and in the original oak frames, surviving from the first quarter of twentieth century England. The Redeemed sign has damages as per the photographs with the broken glass being loose but still